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  • When their refrigerator breaks and they need a repair or a new one, are those delivered on a bike?

    It would be possible to deliver one via Cargo Bike yes.

    When someone buys a mattress, do they just helicopter them in?

    I don’t know how you buy mattresses, but people usually get them delivered because in stores other than IKEA you get ripped off highly. But they would also fit on a cargo bike

    Also don’t play dumb, nobody has something against Vehicles for Emergency Services or Tradespeople. For them there is still enough space there.

    But for individual transportation you certainly don’t need one, and if you do pay for a private garage





  • From commercial providers. It’s not necessary for EU Citizens travelling inside the EU/EEA as they are treated like people in the national systems for emergencies.

    But it simplifies a lot because you can go to any doctor and sometimes they play dumb and pretend they don’t know about the rules and want to force you to pay out of pocket (Happened to me in Austria, I’ve just reported them to the Austrian Health Insurance, he wanted 200€ which is outrageous overpriced and was a contracted doctor of ÖGK). Especially in Eastern Europe. But that applies only to GPs, Hospitals usually play by the rules.

    And it’s also useful for travelling outside of the EU